I believe there's a better way to do this now somewhere. Where would be an updated guide to that?

Oh, and I should add that a simpler way to do this is to dual boot (what filesystems could you share? /tmp/ /home/ ...?) and chroot to run things. One way could be to have 2 programs (perhaps 2 menu's in x) to launch things from as different users in different roots.

Might someone care to give their 'real world' experience with a snafu that's crept up? It looks like it's a GCC version conflict error- My personel suspicition is their's probably a setting that I may need to change:
To test the setup I ran emerge -p tar

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
!!! (dependency required by "dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.2.03" [ebuild])

My initial reaction is that it's a syncing problem.
Because when i've run emerge -p tar to test if my setup is installed correctly without actually installing anything it sometimes reports just the files and dependencies it would retrieve. However
even after I ran emerge --sync

I'm trying to get this to run on my ubuntu dapper install, really missing emerge

So far when I install I get

Code:

!!! Problem with sandbox binary. Disabling...

*** --inject has been deprecated.
*** If you manage a piece of software yourself, add it's name and
*** version (eg foo/bar-1.0) to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided.
*** If you want to prevent portage from upgrading a package, add it to
*** /etc/portage/package.mask prepending it with '>' (eg >foo/bar-1.0)
*** For more information on fine-grained portage control, please see
*** the portage man page.

and

Code:

!!! Problem with sandbox binary. Disabling...

!!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
!!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

Gentoo is awesome and so is Myah OS but Mytoo.. well this error sort of ruins the fun . Some programs install perfectly but lots get this and since I get lots of dependencies in my Mytoo's young life then I can't install much._________________www.myah.org <- another great distro.

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missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure configure
|--- configure 2005-03-29 00:23:02.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure 2005-04-26 14:14:49.373258580 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
4 out of 4 hunks ignored
missing header for unified diff at line 252 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 252
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -u configure.in configure.in
|--- configure.in 2005-03-29 00:23:34.000000000 +0100
|+++ configure.in 2005-04-26 14:01:03.721206572 +0100
--------------------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
2 out of 2 hunks ignored_________________www.myah.org <- another great distro.

!!! ERROR: dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
environment, line 3542: Called src_compile
pycrypto-2.0.1-r5.ebuild, line 38: Called distutils_src_compile
distutils.eclass, line 38: Called die

!!! compilation failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r5/temp/build.log'._________________www.myah.org <- another great distro.

hello, i am a noob in linux, but i really need portage on a knoppix installation on a external harddrive. I dont really understand what i must do with this script can somebudu tell me what i must do step by step? it would be really friendly thank you

I dont know if anybody is still interested in this project but ...
I`ve tried to install portage on Slackware 10.2 with the package portage-2.1.3 and portage-2.0.51.22 but the script doesnt work properly. Thats why I started executing everything by hand and trying to correct it. I stuck on compiling and installing of sandbox just because there is no such directory in my archive. Any ideas?
Is this directory created after compiling some other package/s ?
I suppose i have to mention that I am using python-2.4 because this is the only provided package for Slackware 10.2
P.S. My english is... hm ... worse than I exprected so I hope you understand me